Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1901 — The WeeKly Panorama. International Flirtations. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The WeeKly Panorama .

International Flirtations.

The latest organization to come from the idea factory of William T. Stead, the English editor, is one for promoting what he calls “international flirtations.” Primarily the scheme is intended to promote correspondence between the school children of all nations. He would have a German school girl write a faulty letter in English to an English school boy, who in turn will send back an answer written in more or less faulty German. In the

same way French and American pupils may correspond, or any two pupils who speak and write different languages. So far as he has already gone, Mr. Stead has succeeded in getting more than 9,000 school children —English, French and German —busy in murdering each other’s languages on paper. He works through the school teachers. For instance, he finds a school teacher in England who has a dozen pupils who would like German correspondents, and he puts him In communication with a German teacher who wants an equal number of English correspondents for his children.

W. T. STEAD.